Quotes About Art

Poetry and painting are rooted in the same law, The work of heaven and of the first cause.

Poetry is the art of overhearing ourselves say things from which it is impossible to retreat.

Poetry is the enemy of the poem.

The poetry is myself.

We are able to feel and learn very quickly through music, through art, through poetry some spiritual things that we would otherwise learn very slowly.

I like what Wallace Stevens said: "Poetry must almost successfully resist intelligence." I just change the word "poetry" to "my photographs".

I have experienced healing through other writers' poetry, but there's no way I can sit down to write in the hope a poem will have healing potential. If I do, I'll write a bad poem.

Photography is an austere and blazing poetry of the real.

When power corrupts, poetry cleanses

The aim of art is almost divine: to bring to life again if it is writing history, to create if it is writing poetry.

Poetry is a kind of magic that very few can create and even fewer can truly understand and appreciate in all its glory.

As in art, poetry, music, etc., the best theology is worked out in pain

Architecture, sculpture, painting, music, and poetry, may truly be called the efflorescence of civilised life.

Poetry should be great and unobtrusive, a thing which enters into one's soul, and does not startle it or amaze it with itself, but with its subject.

Writing free verse is like playing tennis with the net down.

A poet who reads his verse in public may have other nasty habits.

Deep feeling doesn't make for good poetry. A way with language would be a bit of help.

I liked painting and drawing, and I liked humanities mainly - poetry, literature - this speculative attitude toward life.

A truly poetic canvas is an awakened dream.

Regarding R. H. Blyth: Blyth is sometimes perilous, naturally, since he's a high-handed old poem himself, but he's also sublime - and who goes to poetry for safety anyway.

I find I cannot exist without Poetry

A merely great intellect can produce prose, but not poetry, not one line.

The poet exposes himself to the risk. All that has been said about poetry, all that he has learned about poetry, is only a partial assurance.

If we ask a vague question, such as, 'What is poetry?' we expect a vague answer, such as, 'Poetry is the music of words,' or 'Poetry is the linguistic correction of disorder.'